Community Voices
My student is atoning for what his grandfather did. Where is our responsibility for four centuries of slavery, racism, lynchings, and inequity in education, poverty, health, housing, and every single aspect of life?
Community Voices
Stand up for and with LGBTQ people in your neighborhood, your workplace, your school, and your faith community. Their lives just might depend on it.
Community Voices
We must also protect the most vulnerable among us: the prisoners, the homeless, those at risk of assault, and those with the fewest resources.
Community Voices
I see people being careless, not listening to Dr. Michael Osterholm and others about what we must do to protect ourselves – and to protect those at gravest risk.
Community Voices
Nearly 250,000 children in the United States were married between the years 2000 and 2010. That number includes an estimated 2,500 children in Minnesota.
Community Voices
The answers are complicated. First, global leaders must unite against all forms of hate directed at people based on their identity.
Community Voices
The excellent new film “The Report” reminds us of the United States’ use of torture in the aftermath of 9/11.
Community Voices
The neo-Nazi movement’s online recruitment and propaganda techniques employ hate music, videos, podcasts, and even political campaigning.
Community Voices
The second-class status of Native Americans reaches beyond the history of forced sterilizations. For decades, Native women have been sex-trafficked, abused, and disappeared at rates far higher than women of any other group in the United States.
Community Voices
The legacy of African-American slavery and genocide is inarguable. We must acknowledge this crime, which would be the first step toward justice.
Community Voices
We know the outcome of Nazi high-tech during the Holocaust. It is time to respond to China’s high-tech persecution of the Uyghurs.
Community Voices
A bill in the Minnesota Legislature this session will create a task force to examine the systemic nature of this problem in Minnesota and recommend steps for prevention.
Community Voices
The U.S. government is taking deplorable action that will reduce women’s willingness to come forward and will increase men’s impunity for sexual crimes against women.
Community Voices
Our future is uncertain. It demands a realistic assessment of our role in the world and what that means for us at home.
Community Voices
Today there is a link between two atrocities that happened in the very same place yet are separated across a century of time.
Community Voices
We see the warning signs, and these signs are all too clear for the Rohingya in Burma – ethnic cleansing leading to genocide. Urge our elected officials to protect them.
Community Voices
Slogans having to do with Jews and ovens – I simply cannot believe that this is happening in my lifetime, in my country, from fellow Americans.
Community Voices
Hate’s legacy has deep tentacles that we often cannot foresee, tentacles that reach across time and place and turn hate into murder.
Community Voices
People often say to me, “If I’d been alive and in Europe back then, I’d have stood up against the Nazis. I’d have helped save Anne Frank.”
Community Voices
The women around our conference table, from 10 countries, have a vision of a different world, one without checkpoints on city streets and without U.N. soldiers.
